First off on Thursday Chris and I got together for a training session. Chris is still one armed due to a recent surgery so we worked a whole bunch of one armed boxing drills using the focus pads and empty hand. We ended out session with some navaja which we repeated in today’s session.

Today Gary, Jason and I…

2 rounds shadow boxing

1 round focus gloves

4 rounds boxing sparring

1 round freestyle footwork

We then got on our shinguards and had a nice refresher course on savate’s coup de pied bas or oblique kick to the shin.

We ended our session with a focus on delivering the point in our navaja work plus some drills from garrote Larense adapted for the shorter blade.

On Sunday it was Matt and I…Mat has been awol for quite some time so we spent a little longer than usual talking before the martial activities. Our plan was an afternoon of single stick. Once Matt found my training spears, our goal shifted.

We spent nearly two hours working through the Cossack spear and Fiore’s spear material. We had several bout spear vs spear and one long spear and buckler vs spear and buckler which was great fun.

We ended the session with some bullwhip…not my weapon of choice but Matt had gotten pretty good with it.

On Wednesday, Chris was out and we spent and hour and a half working through some navaja material. He has an injured right arm and we need to work one handed for a couple of months so considering that he is a LEO and his everyday carry is a cold steel espada…navaja it is!